President Donald Trump is not generally the reticent type. When it comes to the fate of almost 800,000 young immigrants known as Dreamers, however, he has been unusually quiet. Trump is under pressure from conservative state officials who are threatening to sue the federal government next week if he doesn’t end a 2012 program that enables so-called Dreamers — young ...

When India’s prime minister announced last November that 86% of India’s currency would be worthless in hours, he presented the decree as a well-thought-out measure to attack cash “hoarded by anti-national and anti-social elements”. We were led to believe that honest taxpayers would line up to return their high-value currency notes, but these “anti-national and anti-social elements” would be unable ...

Just when the world thought China was retreating — pushing acquisitive private companies to relinquish their global shopping sprees — it looks like Beijing might be getting out its check book again. China Civil Engineering Construction Corp. will build a $5.8 billion hydroelectric power station in eastern Nigeria, with 85 percent of the funding to come from Beijing’s Export-Import Bank, ...